American studying in England AMA

Where and what are you studying?

Where in California? I'm in the SF Bay area, and my son has just graduated from Imperial.

Last year alone there were hundreds of knife deaths in London alone. The government and the police still haven't done anything to improve the situation. In America there are tens of hundreds of shooting deaths. Are there similarities between the UK and US governments in this area? Why do they claim to be a superpower when they can't even handle their own domestic issues?

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AND WHAT ARE BLEACHERS? I have never been able to work it out for my whole life 😂😂 it’s bothered me so much lol

I’m not qualified to give a correct answer to this , no one on earth is yet.

In my opinion the similarity is the problems that any form of ‘solution’ would cause , the American people won’t let the government take the guns off them without chaos (there are strong arguments on both sides on whether to keep or take guns away , I recommend this video to see the argument for guns which usually isn’t understood. https://youtu.be/rE0Z2k6BJI0)

Similarity in the UK you can’t ‘ban’ knives for obvious reasons. I believe efforts have been put in to carry out more stop and search to people , and this only brings problems such as racial tension and more violence (if a police officer tries to search a person that is carrying a knife , it is pretty likely that they aren’t in a stable way therefore would be more likely to use it.

The US claims to be a superpower because they are , all things considered , yes they have horrific domestic issues , but it could be argued that other countries have them worse , or maybe not , for example some European countries usually thought of being nothing are some of the best places to live for a lot of people , but they aren’t a superpower because of the size and where they put their money.

Overall it’s an insanely complex issue which is made more difficult when people blurt our ‘ban all guns’ or ‘life sentences for having a knife’ the best way is always to question everything and take into account what everyone is saying , no matter how idiotic they are , as if it is , then the counter argument should be easy to give , if someone’s trying to suppress another , often the suppressor doesn’t want the suppressed to be heard , why ?

Do people actually go to the football games and other sports events at school?

What do you think about Scotland and also Masaman the youtuber

What made you choose the United Kingdom over the USA? Was it the fees? Teaching?

Also I'm interested to know how hard it was to get a visa to study over here, as the process tends to be reciprocal between nations with schemes in place.

Scotland is great , I’ve been to Edinburgh and it’s like living in the land of Harry Potter , the people in general are no nonsense and hardworking and very patriotic , it’s a great country and a lot different to England in my opinion. Only downer is the food , like what does Scotland have to offer , haggis ? 🤣
I don’t know Masaman the YouTuber 😂

Lol im from the south Midlands and I call dinner tea a lot but I also call it dinner too, idk I guess it depends who I'm around

Lol im from the south Midlands and I call dinner tea a lot but I also call it dinner too, idk I guess it depends who I'm around

Never heard a midlands accent before , I’ll have to go down to Birmingham

I’ve never heard of a midlands accent before , I’ll have to come down around Birmingham some time 😆

There's been a lot of tea questions but can I just confirm something: in the US, do you guys have electric kettles with which you make tea?

This is to settle something with my mum who thinks you don't. I don't know why.

AMA? 🤔

Wow 😂😂😂 I mean we’ve got deep fried pizzas/mars bars and Irn bru

Lol you either get rlly posh sounding ppl like my mum or you get rlly chavy accents like the ppl in my town, tbh I'd say I have an american (I watch Friends everyday lmao and I pick up the accent) and a sought of chav accent coz of the ppl I'm around at school.
So yeah it's okay nothing special